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The article notes this is the first large offshore wind farm outside Europe, but 800MW is big even by European standards. There are currently only 4 operational wind farms larger than 800MW - all in the UK - and only a couple more likely to come online before this one.

I found some research on ultramarathon runners which has this conclusion:

We conclude that, compared with the general population, ultramarathon runners appear healthier and report fewer missed work or school days due to illness or injury. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

We have some of those photos, such as this one showing a British Sopworth Camel engaging German Albatros fighters at extemely close range:

https://www.alamy.com/aerial-combat-between-british-and-germ...

This seems to be covering the same story on 4th April: https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-tweet-ex-pm-barak-seems-to-...

Also a useful loophole to get around the license required to sell alcohol, as demonstrated by Tom Scott in a hovercraft: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLF7yife8YE

It will make a plausible justification for all kinds of false information.

Why did Brexit make Scotland leave the UK?

Brexit was a decision made by the UK to leave the European Union and become separate from it. Scotland voted to remain in the European Union and this caused a disagreement between the UK and Scotland. Scotland thought that the UK's decision to leave the EU would not be very good for Scotland,so they decided to leave the UK and become an independent country again.

Why can't you walk from Central Park to MOMA?

Central Park and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) are two different places in New York City. They are so far away from each other that it is not possible to walk from one place to the other. To get from Central Park to MOMA, you have to take a bus, a taxi, the subway, or even a bike.

Why do cats remember the rules of tennis better than tennis players?

Cats remember the rules of tennis better than tennis players because they have really good memories. Cats have the special ability to remember what they have learned better than most animals, and even people. Tennis players may have good memories too, but cats' memories are extra special. That's why cats often do well on memory tests. Cats remember the rules of tennis because they pay attention to how the game is played and they remember the details. Tennis players may be too distracted or busy thinking about something else, so they don't remember the rules as well or as quickly as cats do.

Even if you limit yourself to considering only currently living humans, calculating the cost of preventing deaths is almost universally avoided by government policy makers of any sort.

Even worse is considering the cost per healthy life year. It's very rare to find any policy maker even willing to discuss this. One that have seen is Britain's NHS, who will spend £20,000 - £30,000 to give cancer patients 1 extra "Quality adjusted life year"[1]. But this is only used to compare drug prices and never mentioned even in the context of other UK government health interventions, which might have a much higher cost (e.g. COVID measures which might have cost 100x more per Qaly) or much lower (e.g. teen mental health might cost 100x less per Qaly). And that's just discussing health care inside a single country. The cost per Qaly of foreign aid to areas experiencing famine might be 10,000x lower than other policies.

[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28983924

Microsoft Azure doesn't agree with this author. They have 3 Availability Zones in their Korea Central region.

It seems like there are a large number of commercial data centres in operation in South Korea, and not all in Seoul: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/?tag=south-korea

Kakao's incident was caused by a single building fire. It's quite a leap to suggest it is impossible to deliver a resilient service in a country the size of South Korea.

In a similar vein, I wrote to Microsoft suggesting their "Authenticator" TOTP app for Android would benefit from a search feature. I can't have been the only one, but it did make me happy when they actually implemented it a few months later

Smartphones contain lots of useful components for celestial navigation such as a gyroscope to measure angles and multiple ways to establish the current time accurately. There are apps that can attempt this such as "CamSextant" but ironically, the big challenge is actually the camera which is wide angle and hard to use for precise observations.

There are a few projects which marry cheap zoom lenses with smartphones (e.g. https://www.instructables.com/ISextant-Project/) to overcome this.

You may also be interested in this app which compares GPS positioning with sextant altitude allowing you easily detect errors with either: http://reednavigation.com/GPSAntiSpoof/

It looks like this announcement was a couple of years ago and some more concrete info is now available e.g. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/advanced-clean-...

It actually seems quite weak; a slow requirement for manufacturers to start shipping zero emission trucks, and a requirement for fleet operators to report.

They may not respond to polite requests or threats but I expect they respond to US dollars.

I like this implementation of the "single vertical line of pixels" rotating: https://www.instructables.com/SpokePOV:-LED-Bike-Wheel-Image...

I'd never heard of this until earlier this week I listened to an old episode of Damn Interesting which covers it in their usual gripping fashion. Highly recommended: https://www.damninteresting.com/a-debaculous-fiasco/

Netflix is in London too and expanding

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-07/netflix-t...

there are tons of government agencies who whack moles all day long. We don't give up inspecting food outlets for hygiene because another dodgy van will pop up tomorrow.

from the article, ISPs are interested and presumably they will turn the flat pricing into plans. Dropping a solar powered cell tower with Starlink backhaul on top of a mountain could easily serve 200 cell phones paying $2/month each

This describes the process of finding the dots: https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali...

There is an advantage if you are testing printers rather than reviewing a single scan as they describe - you can print the same content on two different printers and compare the output

Only this evening I was listening to Tim Hartford's Cautionary Tales podcast episode which refers to the book The Return of a King. It's a really good episode - https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary-tales-masterly-ina...

Concur, recorded delivery has worked like magic for me too in the UK. The UK is also good for consumer activist sites like MSE and regulators / ombudsmen. I bought an insurance policy once which failed to deliver the policy documents, and then wouldn't let me cancel. One email to the ombudsman and I got an apology and full refund within 24 hours.

There's something about that hobby. I suspect having "all the gear and no idea" is expensive and somehow they feel entitled. We have a steep winding road near us which is full of blind spots. On a sunny weekend you're guaranteed to encounter a line of cars unable to overtake a 50yo man on foot slowly pushing a expensive carbon frame bicycle up the hill. I live in a very car-central part of the world, I suspect if we had actual cycle infrastructure the hobbyists would be diluted by people actually going somewhere on bikes.

Given the sizable investment of time and money required to run and independent exit node, it might be worth considering throwing your support behind one of the existing non-profits providing exit nodes

https://blog.torproject.org/support-tor-network-donate-exit-...

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayDonations

Not sure if the article was changed but other coverage has "up to 10%" implying that's the statutory maximum - https://www.ft.com/content/df07e3f2-2d6e-4ced-a819-779e743d8...

Probably https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system), running since 1960. It ran on System/360 for decades, maybe still does.

There's a longer article linked from this one which says Fukushima is generating 140 tons of contaminated water per day and has well over a million tons stored. Not sure if it's measuring the same thing but it seems they might need a much larger scale facility.